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Chicken (Red Jungle fowl) (GRCg6a) ▼ 
Summary
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SIX homeobox 6 [Source:NCBI gene (formerly Entrezgene);Acc:395843]
OPTX2, Six9
Primary_assembly 5: 54,616,844-54,619,257 reverse strand.
GRCg6a:CM000097.5
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant).
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